Vos Iz Neias? is an online news site that caters to the Orthodox Jewish and Hasidic world in the United States. Its coverage is primarily focused on the New York

New York

New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...

 metropolitan area and Israel

Israel

The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...

. Vos Iz Neias and its main competitor, Yeshiva World News

Yeshiva World News

Yeshiva World News ', is an Orthodox Jewish online news publication. It also has multiple services catering to Jews all over the world....

, are the primary sources of online news for American Orthodox Jews.

Vos Iz Neias is run by four anonymous Orthodox Jews, two of whom are Hasidic. The site has become a source for the mainstream media as well, and has been quoted in the New York Times, Daily News and the New York Post

New York Post

The New York Post is the 13th-oldest newspaper published in the United States and is generally acknowledged as the oldest to have been published continuously as a daily, although – as is the case with most other papers – its publication has been periodically interrupted by labor actions...

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There are advertisers and writers, but since all business is conducted through the internet and through Paypal, the anonymity of the editors is kept intact.

Rabbinical ban

In the month of Tevet

Tevet

Tebet is the fourth month of the civil year and the tenth month of the ecclesiastical year on the Hebrew calendar. It follows Kislev and precedes Shevat. It is a winter month of 29 days...

, 5771 (Dec. 2010-Jan. 2011), a Rabbinical ban was issued against Vos Iz Neias. It was signed by certain rabbis of the Haredi Jewish

Haredi Judaism

Haredi or Charedi/Chareidi Judaism is the most conservative form of Orthodox Judaism, often referred to as ultra-Orthodox. A follower of Haredi Judaism is called a Haredi ....

 community, including Rabbis Yaakov Perlow

Yaakov Perlow

Rabbi Yaakov Perlow is a Hasidic rebbe and rosh yeshiva living in Boro Park, Brooklyn. He is the current Novominsker Rebbe and serves as rosh of the American Agudath Israel of America, a Haredi communal organization...

, Malkiel Kotler, Aaron Schechter

Aaron Schechter

Aaron Moshe Schechter is the rosh yeshiva of the Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin and its post-graduate Talmudical division Kollel Gur Aryeh as well as of all the branches of the yeshiva in Brooklyn, New York City that includes an elementary school and a high school for young Jewish boys, teenagers,...

, Yerucham Olshin

Yerucham Olshin

Yerucham Olshin is an Orthodox Jewish rabbi and one of the rosh yeshivas of Beth Medrash Govoha, an Orthodox yeshiva located in Lakewood, New Jersey...

, Shmuel Kamenetsky

Shmuel Kamenetsky

Shmuel Kamenetsky is a Haredi rabbi and co-founder and rosh yeshiva of the Talmudical Yeshiva of Philadelphia. He is one of the best-known living Haredi Litvish Jewish gedolim outside Israel and the best-known son of Rabbi Yaakov Kamenetsky , one of America's greatest Torah...

, and Matisyohu Salomon.